Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-11

bounds over the lawn at Prospect Park is
better than the Sickestpatiept In Bellevue
Hospital. But as to our soul, we Will
cross right over, not waiting tor obse-
quies, independent of obituary, into q
state In every way better. witt wider
room and Veoclties beyond computation;
the dullest Of us into compauionship with
the very best spirits in their very best
MOOD, in the very parlor OF the universe,
the four walls FURNISHED and paneed
and pictured and gloriHed with all the
splendors that the lntiuite God In all the
ages has been able to invent. NictOryl
This view OF course makes it OF but lit
tie Importance whether we are cremated
or sepultured. II the latter is dust To
dust, the former Is Eshes to ashes. If
any prefer incineration let them have 1t
without carioature. The world may be-
come so crowded that cremation may be
universally adopted by law as well as by
geueral consent. Many Of the mlQhtiest
and best spirits have gone through this
process. Thousands and Tens OF thou
sands Of Gods children have been Gre
mated-P. L. Bliss and wife, the evan
gclistic singers, cremated by accident at
Ashtabula bridge; John Rodgers, ere
mated by persecution; Latimer and Rid
ley, cremRted at Oxford; Pothinus, and
Blandina, a slave, and Alexander, a
pu(blCldn, anu IOelT COulT2u6S, CEelnHt6Q
at the order Of Marcus Aurelius-at least
a bundred thousand Of Chrisrs disciples
cremated-and there can be no doubt
about the resurrection OF their bodies. II
the world last, as much longer as il has
already been built, there perhaps may be
no room for the large acreage set apart
Tor the resting places, but that time has
not come. Plenty of room yet, and the
race need not pass that bridge OF fire until
it comes to it. The most OF US prefer the
old way. But whether out OF natural dis
Indignation or cremation we shall get that
luminous, buoyaut, giadsome, transcend
ent, magnificent, tneXplicable structure
called the resurrection body, you will have
1t, | will have 1t. | say to YOU to-
day, as Paul said TO ARrppa: "Why
should IL be thought a thing incredible
with you, that God should raise the
deadp The far-up cloud, higher than
the hawk flies, higher than the eagle
flies, what is it made OFF Drops OF water
from the Hudson, other drops from the
East river, other drops from Il stagnant
pool out on Newark flats-up yonder
thore, embodied in a cloud, and the sun
kindles it. If God can make such u
lustrous cloud out OF water drops, many
OF them sOlled and impure and fetched
from miles away, can He not transport
the fragments of heman body fIom the
earth, and out of them build human
body? Cannot God,. who owns ali the
material out OF which bones and
muscle and flesh are made ,sset them
up again II they have fallenY II
u manufacturer of telescopes drop a tele-
scope on the floor and it breaks, can he
not mend IL again so you can see through
ItY Ard II God drops the human eye into
the dust, the eye which ne originally
fashioned, can He not restore ity Aye, II
the manufacturer OF the telescope by
change of the glass and a change OF focus
can make a better glass than that which
was originally constructed, and actually
improve 1t, do you not think the fashioner
of the human eye may improve it's sight
and multiply the natural eye by the
thousandfold additional forces Of the res
direction eye!
"Why should it be thought with you an
incredible thing that God should raise
the dead !" Things all around US sug-
gest 1t. Out OF what grew all these flow
ersf Out of the mold and the earth.
Resurrectedl Resurrectedl The radiant
butterfly, where did it come froml The
lOathsome caterpillar. That albatrOss
that smites the tempest with its wing,
where did 1t come fromS A senseless
shell. Near Bergerac, France, in a
Celtic tomb under a block were found
flower seed that had been buried two
thousand years. Tho explorer took the
haTer seed and planted it, and
1t came up; IL bloomed In
bluebell and heIiotrope. Two thousand
years ago buried, yet resurrected. A
traveller says be found in a mummy pit
ip Egypt garden peas that had been
buried there three thousand years ago.
lie brought them out, and on June 4,
1874, he planted them, ard ia thirty days
a
years, yet resurrected. "Why should it
be thought thing incredible with you
that God should raise the deadY
Where did all thls silk come from-the
silk that ad0rn5 your person and your
homes2 la the hollow OF a staff q Greek
missionary brought from China TO Eu-
rope the progenltOrs of those worms that
now supply the silk markets OF many ma
tiOns. The pageantry OF banDered host
and the luxurious articles OF commercial
emporium blazing out from the silk
worms. And who shall be surprised II
out Of this Insignificant earthly body,
this Insignificant earthly life, our bodies
unfold into something worthy OF the COM
ing eternitiesI Put silver into diluted
nitre and IL dissolves. Is the silver gone
fOreVeri No. Put in some pieces Of cop
per and the silver reappears. II one force
dissolVes another force organizes.
Nv hy should 1t be thought u thing in
credible with you that God should raise
the deadP' The insects flew and the
worms cFawled last autumn feebler anu
leebler and then stopped. They have
taken no food; they want noue, They
lay dormant and insensible, but soon the
south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet, aud the air and the earth will
be full OF them. DO you not think that
God oAn do as mucn Tor our bodies as lie
does tor the wasps and the spiders aud
The snailsy This morning at 1880 O'CLOCK
there was a resurrection. out Ot the
night the day. In a few weeks there will
be resurrection in all our gardens.
Why not some day resurrection amid
all the graVesp
Ever aud anon there are instances OF
men and women cntranced.
A trance is death followed by resurrec-
tiou after few days; total suspension of
mental power and voluntary acJion. Rev.
William Tennent, a great evangelist Of
the last generation, OF whom DR.. Arcbi-
bald Alexander, a man tar from being
sentimental, wrote IN most euiogistlc
terme-Rev. william Tennent seemed %
die. His spirit departed, People came
la day after day and said: "He Is dead,
he 10 dead" But the soul that fied re-
turned, and william Tsnnent lived TO
write out the experiences OF what he had
seen while his soul was gone. II may be
found some time Lhat what ~ called sus.
pended animation or cOmatOso state 10
briet death, giving the soul an excursion
into the next world from which II comes